Senior Software Engineer - Market Data
ABOUT RAVEN
Raven is a proprietary crypto market-making and high-frequency trading firm. We trade spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets with dedicated low-latency infrastructure across eight major trading regions.
We hire competitive individuals and natural problem solvers with a record of ranking at something hard, whether competitive programming, games, or mathematics, who treat an unfamiliar problem as a challenge rather than an obstacle.
We can teach markets; we cannot teach drive.
We build our own stack end to end, from connectivity and pricing through execution, monitoring, and research data.
THE ROLE
Before a strategy can price anything, a packet has to arrive, be decoded, sequenced, book-built, normalized, timestamped, and delivered - in microseconds, correctly, around the clock, because markets never sleep. You own that path, and the capture, archive, and replay that give the same data a second life in research. A stale book or a silent gap loses money faster than almost any other bug we can write.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
Feed handlers: Ingestion from everything we price against. Centralized exchange venues over WebSocket, FIX, and proprietary binary protocols, plus the reference feeds around them, futures and FX included - sequencing, gap detection and recovery, reconnect logic that survives the ugliest exchange behavior. DeFi feeds from the blockchain nodes around t
